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????親愛的安妮：過去五年，我一直在做全職媽媽。現在，我想重返職場。除擁有財會方面的工作經驗外，我還擁有戰略管理MBA學位。但是令我困惑的是，在離開職場很長時間以后，我不知道該如何推銷自己。目前就業市場競爭日趨激烈，可我的簡歷中卻有這么長時間的一段空白期，這是不是意味著我已經沒有希望了呢？——朱迪絲 ????親愛的朱迪絲：事情未必如你所言。紐約的一位高管培訓師瑪麗?安妮?沃什說：“是否能成功重啟職業生涯，與多長時間不工作沒有太大關系；相反，它與個人的態度以及自我推銷的方式密切相關。” ????她補充說，重回職業快車道“通常大概需要一年左右的時間。需要重建自己的專業形象、或創造一個全新的形象。即使一步不錯，這個過程也需要一年時間，但是千萬不要為此而感到沮喪。” ????沃什通過采取三步法，幫助客戶度過這一階段。首先，她表示：“長時間不工作的人一般會認為，重返職場困難重重。他們缺乏自信，所以，首先要做的就是幫助他們重拾信心。” ????要想重塑信心，求職者首先“需要確定目前生命中最重要的事情以及目標是什么。一旦確定了目標、現階段追求的重點之后，求職者就可以開始著手做一些實際的工作，如：確定招聘單位可能需要自己的哪些資質和技能（包括辭職之前以及辭職后的幾年中形成的）。” ????許多求職者低估了自己擁有的一些特質。沃什說：“招聘經理希望聘用成熟、穩定和敬業的員工。而現在，經過時間的歷練后，你在這方面的特質可能更突出。” ????一旦確定了職業目標和自身優勢，求職者就要在簡歷中強調自己在早期工作中取得的成就，以及在辭職之后學到的知識。當然，也包括通過志愿者工作提升或掌握的技能。 ????通過職業咨詢網站五點俱樂部(Five O'Clock Club)，求職者可以輕松下載簡歷模板，從中獲得啟發。 ????之后，求職者就要盡全力利用自己的人際關系網。沃什說：“明確了自己希望涉足或重返的行業后，求職者要盡一切可能，與這些行業中的人多交流。” |
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????Dear Annie: I've been a stay-at-home mom for the past five years, and I'm ready to go back to work. My background is in finance and accounting, and I have an MBA in strategic management, but I'm at a loss as to how to sell myself after such a long absence from the corporate world. Especially in this hypercompetitive job market, will this big gap in my resume put me out of the running? — Just Judith ????Dear J.J.: Not necessarily. "Success in re-launching your career is less a factor of how long you've been away and more a matter of your attitude and how you present yourself," says Mary Anne Walsh, a New York City-based executive coach. ????Bear in mind that getting back up to speed "usually takes about a year," she adds. "Don't get discouraged if it takes that long to reestablish your professional identity, or create a new one, even if you're doing everything right." ????Walsh approaches the process with her clients in three steps. First, she says, "People who have been away from the business world for a while often find the idea of going back to be pretty daunting. They lack self-confidence. So first we work on that." ????One way to get your confidence back is to "identify what's important to you at this point in your life. What is your purpose? Once you establish a goal and an overarching sense of what you want this stage of your career to look like, you can move on to the practical task of pinpointing which special aptitudes and skills you've developed -- either before you left the workforce or in the years since then -- that employers might want." ????These include a few traits that many job seekers undervalue in themselves, Walsh says: "Hiring managers look for maturity, stability, and dedication, and you may have more of these qualities now than you did when you were younger." ????Once you've determined what you want to do and clarified what qualifies you to do it, write a resume that emphasizes both your professional accomplishments in your former corporate life and what you've learned since then. Include any skills you've honed or acquired through volunteer work. ????A handy sample resume that may spark some ideas for you is available from the Five O'Clock Club, a national career-counseling group. ????Then start networking like mad, says Walsh: "Talk to as many people as you can in the field you're trying to get into, or get back into." |
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